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1 // Copyright 2009 The Chromium Authors
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
4 
5 #ifdef UNSAFE_BUFFERS_BUILD
6 // TODO(crbug.com/40284755): Remove this and spanify to fix the errors.
7 #pragma allow_unsafe_buffers
8 #endif
9 
10 // This file implements BSD-style setproctitle() for Linux.
11 // It is written such that it can easily be compiled outside Chromium.
12 //
13 // The Linux kernel sets up two locations in memory to pass arguments and
14 // environment variables to processes. First, there are two char* arrays stored
15 // one after another: argv and environ. A pointer to argv is passed to main(),
16 // while glibc sets the global variable |environ| to point at the latter. Both
17 // of these arrays are terminated by a null pointer; the environment array is
18 // also followed by some empty space to allow additional variables to be added.
19 //
20 // These arrays contain pointers to a second location in memory, where the
21 // strings themselves are stored one after another: first all the arguments,
22 // then the environment variables.
23 //
24 // When the kernel reads the command line arguments for a process, it looks at
25 // the range of memory that it initially used for the argument list. If the
26 // terminating '\0' character is still where it expects, nothing further is
27 // done. If it has been overwritten, the kernel will scan up to the size of
28 // a page looking for another.
29 //
30 // Thus to change the process title, we must move any environment variables out
31 // of the way to make room for a potentially longer title, and then overwrite
32 // the memory pointed to by argv[0] with a single replacement string, making
33 // sure its size does not exceed the available space.
34 //
35 // See the following kernel commit for the details of the contract between
36 // kernel and setproctitle:
37 // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2954152298c37804dab49d630aa959625b50cf64
38 //
39 // It is perhaps worth noting that patches to add a system call to Linux for
40 // this, like in BSD, have never made it in: this is the "official" way to do
41 // this on Linux. Presumably it is not in glibc due to some disagreement over
42 // this position within the glibc project, leaving applications caught in the
43 // middle. (Also, only a very few applications need or want this anyway.)
44 
45 #include "base/process/set_process_title_linux.h"
46 
47 #include <stdarg.h>
48 #include <stddef.h>
49 #include <stdint.h>
50 #include <stdio.h>
51 #include <string.h>
52 #include <unistd.h>
53 
54 #include <string>
55 #include <vector>
56 
57 #include "base/files/file_util.h"
58 #include "base/no_destructor.h"
59 #include "base/numerics/safe_conversions.h"
60 
61 extern char** environ;
62 
63 // g_orig_argv0 is the original process name found in argv[0].
64 // It is set to a copy of argv[0] in setproctitle_init. It is nullptr if
65 // setproctitle_init was unsuccessful or not called.
66 static const char* g_orig_argv0 = nullptr;
67 
68 // Following pointers hold the initial argv/envp memory range.
69 // They are initialized in setproctitle_init and are used to overwrite the
70 // argv/envp memory range with a new process title to be read by the kernel.
71 // They are nullptr if setproctitle_init was unsuccessful or not called.
72 // Note that g_envp_start is not necessary because it is the same as g_argv_end.
73 static char* g_argv_start = nullptr;
74 static char* g_argv_end = nullptr;
75 static char* g_envp_end = nullptr;
76 
setproctitle(const char * fmt,...)77 void setproctitle(const char* fmt, ...) {
78   va_list ap;
79 
80   // Sanity check before we try and set the process title.
81   // The BSD version allows a null fmt to restore the original title.
82   if (!g_orig_argv0 || !fmt)
83     return;
84 
85   // The title can be up to the end of envp.
86   const size_t avail_size =
87       base::checked_cast<size_t>(g_envp_end - g_argv_start - 1);
88 
89   // Linux 4.18--5.2 have a bug where we can never set a process title
90   // shorter than the initial argv. Check if the bug exists in the current
91   // kernel on the first call of setproctitle.
92   static const bool buggy_kernel = [avail_size] {
93     // Attempt to set an empty title. This will set cmdline to:
94     // ""                   (on Linux --4.17)
95     // "\0\0\0...\0\0\0.\0" (on Linux 4.18--5.2)
96     // "\0"                 (on Linux 5.3--)
97     memset(g_argv_start, 0, avail_size + 1);
98     g_argv_end[-1] = '.';
99 
100     std::string cmdline;
101     if (!base::ReadFileToString(base::FilePath("/proc/self/cmdline"),
102                                 &cmdline)) {
103       return false;
104     }
105     return cmdline.size() >= 2;
106   }();
107 
108   memset(g_argv_start, 0, avail_size + 1);
109 
110   size_t size;
111   va_start(ap, fmt);
112   if (fmt[0] == '-') {
113     size = base::checked_cast<size_t>(
114         vsnprintf(g_argv_start, avail_size, &fmt[1], ap));
115   } else {
116     size = base::checked_cast<size_t>(
117         snprintf(g_argv_start, avail_size, "%s ", g_orig_argv0));
118     if (size < avail_size)
119       size += base::checked_cast<size_t>(
120           vsnprintf(&g_argv_start[size], avail_size - size, fmt, ap));
121   }
122   va_end(ap);
123 
124   // Kernel looks for a null terminator instead of the initial argv space
125   // when the end of the space is not terminated with a null.
126   // https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d26d0cd97c88eb1a5704b42e41ab443406807810
127   //
128   // If the length of the new title is shorter than the original argv space,
129   // set the last byte of the space to an arbitrary non-null character to tell
130   // the kernel that setproctitle was called.
131   //
132   // On buggy kernels we can never make the process title shorter than the
133   // initial argv. In that case, just leave the remaining bytes filled with
134   // null characters.
135   const size_t argv_size =
136       base::checked_cast<size_t>(g_argv_end - g_argv_start - 1);
137   if (!buggy_kernel && size < argv_size)
138     g_argv_end[-1] = '.';
139 }
140 
141 // A version of this built into glibc would not need this function, since
142 // it could stash the argv pointer in __libc_start_main(). But we need it.
setproctitle_init(const char ** main_argv)143 void setproctitle_init(const char** main_argv) {
144   static bool init_called = false;
145   if (init_called)
146     return;
147   init_called = true;
148 
149   if (!main_argv)
150     return;
151 
152   // Verify that the memory layout matches expectation.
153   char** argv = const_cast<char**>(main_argv);
154   char* argv_start = argv[0];
155   char* p = argv_start;
156   for (size_t i = 0; argv[i]; ++i) {
157     if (p != argv[i])
158       return;
159     p += strlen(p) + 1;
160   }
161   char* argv_end = p;
162   size_t environ_size = 0;
163   for (size_t i = 0; environ[i]; ++i, ++environ_size) {
164     if (p != environ[i])
165       return;
166     p += strlen(p) + 1;
167   }
168   char* envp_end = p;
169 
170   // Move the environment out of the way. Note that we are moving the values,
171   // not the environment array itself. Also note that we preallocate the entire
172   // vector, because a string's underlying data pointer is not stable under
173   // move operations, which could otherwise occur if building up the vector
174   // incrementally.
175   static base::NoDestructor<std::vector<std::string>> environ_copy(
176       environ_size);
177   for (size_t i = 0; environ[i]; ++i) {
178     (*environ_copy)[i] = environ[i];
179     environ[i] = &(*environ_copy)[i][0];
180   }
181 
182   if (!argv[0])
183     return;
184 
185   static base::NoDestructor<std::string> argv0_storage(argv[0]);
186   g_orig_argv0 = argv0_storage->data();
187   g_argv_start = argv_start;
188   g_argv_end = argv_end;
189   g_envp_end = envp_end;
190 }
191